Where does “pestuumarkkinat” come from?
pestuumarkkinat (Finnish) comes from Finnish pestuu, from Finnish pestata, from Old Swedish fästa, from Old Norse fasta, from Proto-Germanic fastāną, from Proto-Germanic -āną, from Proto-Germanic -ajaną, from Proto-Indo-European -oyéti — he, she.
pestuumarkkinat (Finnish): a fair for finding and hiring farmhands and maids
Definitions
- a fair for finding and hiring farmhands and maids
Ancestry of “pestuumarkkinat”, step by step
pestuumarkkinat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pestuu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pestuu | hiring, recruiting |
| 2 | Finnish | pestata | to hire |
| 3 | Old Swedish | fästa | to sign on, to engage |
| 4 | Old Norse | fasta | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | fastāną | to observe, hold firm to; to fast, to abstain... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -āną | Creates factitive verbs from adjectives, later... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -ajaną | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -oyéti | Creates factitive verbs from adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Finnish markkinat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | markkinat | market; fair, funfair; Nominative plural form... |
| 2 | Swedish | marknad | market; market; organized trading event; market;... |
| 3 | Old Norse | markaðr | market |
| 4 | Old Saxon | markat | — |
| 5 | Latin | marcātus | — |
| 6 | Latin | mercatus | trade, traffic, buying and selling; market,... |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |